Kultura Art

So proud to be a grandma 🤍
My beautiful daughter Valerie and her Italian family in Napoli, our Scottish side, and my Russian background all coming together for this special day.

Celebrating Romeo’s baptism surrounded by love, warmth and family

A truly joyful and inspiring workshop with the wonderful U3A group 🎨

We spent the session exploring colour, light and texture through this vibrant cake composition — and just look at the results. Every painting is completely unique, full of personality, confidence and expression.

It’s always such a pleasure to see how everyone develops their own style while working from the same theme. A room full of focus, laughter and creativity — exactly what art should be.

Thank you to this brilliant group for your openness, energy and beautiful work.

✨ Paintings available to view and celebrate
✨ Creativity at every stage of life

Today I stepped into a house that feels like it has been breathing for more than a century.

Old hydraulic tiles under my feet. Thick walls that have held summer heat and winter silence. Bottles wrapped in wicker. A Catalan prayer book. Keys that once opened real wooden doors, not just locks but lives.

This house in the old centre of Torredembarra was likely built in the early 1900s. I imagine a local family living here — perhaps wine merchants, perhaps small traders. Children growing up on these narrow streets. The civil war passing through their windows. Electricity arriving slowly. Traditions held quietly inside these walls.

Nothing feels staged. It feels preserved. Not as a museum, but as memory.

Standing there, I felt the weight of continuity. How families carry customs. How houses carry stories. How roots shape generations.

There is something deeply beautiful in spaces that were built “for life”, not for trends.
Sometimes architecture teaches us more about stability, culture and belonging than any book ever could.

No comments, love this little reminder about simple things that makes me to recharge my life batteries 🔋🥰

HGS ART Winter Fair
TODAY!!!
11am - 6pm

It would be lovely to see you today at our Winter Fair. We are at Henrietta Barnett School in the heart of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

You will discover a wonderful and affordable range of unique handmade gifts ranging from ceramics to glass, wall art to jewellery, prints to silk scarves and more.
You will also have the opportunity to meet and support our talented local artists and makers.

Delicious festive refreshments will be served by North London Hospice volunteers.

Join us at Henrietta Barnett School, Central Square, NW11 7BN.

Warm wishes from
HGS ART
Hampstead Garden Suburb